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Judicial Corporal Punishment as an Alternative to Incarceration in the United States
Sanaz Alasti leaves the mainstream alternatives to incarceration to examine a different, seemingly archaic approach, physical (but non-carceral) punishment—corporal punishment. …
A History of Tatarstan
A History of Tatarstan: The Russian Yoke and the Vanishing Tatars surveys the history of the Tatar people living along the Volga river. It argues that the Volga Tatars were …
The Politics and Psychoanalysis of Comedy
This book looks at the political aspects of comedy and how humor is shaped by unconscious social and psychological factors within a particular cultural and historical context. …
Much Ado about Nothing and the New Awareness
The essays in this volume rethink Much Ado About Nothing from the standpoint of the New Awareness. Scholars today are by necessity both the products and the producers of this …
The Peculiar Evolution of Slovenian Local Government
After Slovenia's independence in 1991 from Yugoslavia, the introduction of local government was one of the most challenging tasks in the new country, as it meant a radical change …
Neoliberal Techniques of Social Suffering
Neoliberal Techniques of Social Suffering: Political Resistance and Critical Theory from Latin America and Spain is the result of the critical and political commitment of various …
Integration in the Southern African Development Community Region
Peoples’ Agency, Popular Participation, Democratization, and Integration in Southern African Development Community Region, edited by Korwa Gombe Adar, Dorothy Mpabanga, Kebapetse …
Constructing Patienthood in Brokered Medical Interaction
Drawing on extensive firsthand experience of face-to-face meetings between patients and healthcare practitioners, Constructing Patienthood is the first book-length work dedicated …
Political Disagreement, Violence and Nonviolence
Violence and Nonviolence descriptively analyzes numerous examples of theorists’ definitions and characterizations of varying types of violence, arguing that a commonsense view of …
Crosscurrents
Locked in a common fight against Imperial Japan, the United States and Nationalist China became allies, but significant fissures in their relationship soon developed. Neither ally …
Modernist Parasites
Modernist Parasites: Bioethics, Dependency, and Literature, post-1900 analyzes biological and social parasites in the political, scientific, and literary imagination. Initially …
Inequality and Governance in an Uncertain World
In Inequality and Governance in an Uncertain World: Perspectives on Democratic & Autocratic Governments, the authors address structural and systemic inequalities in democratic and …